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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1862-06-12

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111 1Y VAA AVL 4i war gqiIi MOUNT "VERNON, OHIO ' THURSDAY, JUNE 12. 18C2. VOL. VIII. HO. 32 Vino and. TO ALL WAOTrNG FARMS. NEW StlTLEMKNT OF YINKbAND. A REMEDY FOrIaRD TIMES. A Kara opportunity in tho Best Markot, and Most Delightiul and Healthful Climate la Hi Unlo.i, Only Thirty Miles South of -Philadelphia, on ft Railroad, boina; Itich, Heavy Soil, and a Highly Products Wheat Land, Among the Dest in the Oar rien Rtite of New Jers"y . It eoniiata of 20,000 acroi of good land, diviJoil Into fam of dilTuront niiea to iuit tht purchaaer from 20 aerea and upwards and . la anM at the rate of from IIS to $20 per aero (or tho form land parable one-fourth oaah-and 'ho balanoe byquarter-yearly instalment, with legal intereat, wllhln the term of four yean. TUB ROIL 1, In greet part, a Rich Clay I.oam, aultablo for Wheat, Grau and Potntooa also a dark and rich aandy loam, rnitable for corn . iweet po'.atoea, to-Won, all klmta of vecetablea and root crops, and the ftnoitrarletloi of fruit, auoh aa ftrapea, I'oarf, t'enohet, Apricots, Nootarinos, lllaokberrloe, Molona and other fruits, best adapted to the Philadelphia and Now York markets. In respect to the loll and erops there can bo no mistako, as visitors can examine both, and none are expooted to buy bofore so doing; and finding these statements eorroot under these eircumstanoos, unlosa there statements were eorreot, there would be no use In their loing mane, jt la ooisulereil TIIE BEST FKCIT SOIL IN TIIE UNION, See Reports of Solon Robinson, Esq., of the N. Y. Tribune, and the woll-known egricullarlst, Wm Parry of Cinuaniinaon, New Jersey, which will be 4U..I.0JJOU inquirers. j THE MARKET. Hy looking over a map the rotidor will perceive that It enjoys the uost narkot In the Union, anil nn direct communication with New York and Philadelphia twice a day, being only thirty-two tniloa from the tatter. Produce in this market brings double the price that it docs in locations tlistant from the cities. In this location it can be put into markot tho same morning it is 'gathered, and for what tho farmer sells he gets the highest priee; whilst groceries and othor articles he purchases he gets at the lowest prioe. In the West, what he sells brings him a pittance, but for what he buys he pays two prices. In locating here the i "ttler!has many other advantages. He is within a w hours by railroad, of all tho great citioe of Now K .lgland and the Middle States. He I near his old friends and associations. He has school for his children, dirino serrice, and nil the advantages of vn iiiiairiuu, huh no is mmr t. lurgit ciiy. THE CLIMATE Is delightful: the wlntors being salubrious and open, whilst the summers are no warmer than in the North. The location is upon tho lino of latitude with Northorn Virginia. Porsons wanting a ohango of climate for health, would be much benefitted in Vinoland. The mildness of the climato and its bracing influence, makes itexcollent for all pulmonary affections, dyspepsia, or general debility, Visitors will notice a diffor-ejeo in a few dnvs. Chills and fevers are unknown. CONVENIENCES AT nAND. Building material is plenty. Fish and oysters are plentiful and cheap. Visitors must expect however to see a newpl-iee. WIIY THE PROPERTY HAS NOT DEEN SET-TIED BEFORE. This question the reader naturally asks. Ttis becinao it has been held in largo tracts by families not disposed to sell, and boing witho it railroad facilities they bad few inducements, Tho railroad has just been openod through the property this season for the first time. Visitors are shown over tho land in n carriage, free of expense, an 'nffordod time and opportunity for thorough investigation. Thoso who eome with a view to settle, should bring money to secure their purchases, as loca tions are not held upon refusal. Tho safest thing in hard timo?,whoro people have been thrown on t of employment or business, and possess some little means or small incomos,is to start thcuiselvos a home. They can buy a piece nf land at a small price, and earn more than wages In improving it; and when ttis done it isaeortain in-drpndenoo and no bus. A few acres in fruit trees will insure a comfortable living. The land is put down to hard timo prices, and all improvements can be made at a chonpor rate than most any othor timo. The whole tract with six milos front on tho railroad, is boing laid out with fine and spnoious nven-uos with a town in the ccntro five aero lots in the town sell at from $150 to $200; two and-a-half aero tots at from $30 to $120, and town lots SO feet Vont by 150 feotdoop; at $100 payable ono half cash and the balance within a year. It is only upon farms of twonty acres, or nioro, that fouryoars' timo is given. TO MANUFACTURERS, the town nftVdsafine opening for tho shoo manufacturing business, and other articles, being near Philadelphia, and the surrounding country has a large population, which affords a good market. This settlement in theeourso of a several years, will bo one of the most beantiful places in the country, and most ogreonble tor a residence. It is intended tomako it a Vine and Fruit growing oountry, as this culture is the most piafitable and tho boat adapted to tho market, fcvory advantage andeonvonienoe for settlers will bo Introduced which will insure the prosperity of the place The hard times throughout the country will bean advantage to the settlement, as it compels people to resort to agriculture lor a living. Large numbers of people are purchasing, and peo pie who desire the best location should vUit the place at once. Improved land i also for sale. TIMBER Land can be bought either with or without tiinbor. The Timbur at markot valuation. The Title is Indisputable. Warrantoe Deeds given, olear of all incumbrance, whon tbo money is paid. Boarding conveniences at hand. Letters promptly answered, and Reports af Solon Robinson and Wml'arr' sent, together wich the Vinoland Rural. Route to tho Land: Leave Walnut street wharf Philadzpithiaat 9 o'clock, A M an J PM, unloss there should be a ehango nf hour for Vinoland, on the Ola9.4boro and Millville railroad. When you leave the earl t Vinoland Station, just opened, in q'lire for CIUS-K. I.ANDI3, Postmaster, Founder of the Colony, VlSKHNDP. O., CCHKEBLAND Oo.. N J. P. 8. There is a change of cars at Olassboro. A lsn beware of sharnor on the cars from New York and Philadelphia to Vinoland, inquiring your business, destination, so. u ly . .REPORT OF SOLON ROBINSON. OF TnE NEW tORK TRIBUNE, CFOM Tit VINELAND SETTLEMENT pjyThe following Is an extract from the report of Solon Robinson, Esq., published in tho New York Tribune, it reference to Vineland. All persons can road this report with interest. Advantages of Fat ming near nome Vine-land Remarks upon Marl Soil, its great Fertility The Cause of Fertility Amount of Crops Produced Praotical Evidence. Itis certainly one of the most extensive fertile tracts, in an almost level position, and suitable condition for pleasant farminj that we know of this side of the western prairies. We found Soros of the oldest farms apparently just as profitably productive a when first oleared of forest fifty er a hundred years ago. The geologist would loon discover the eanse of this eontinned fertility. The whole country is a marine deposit, and all through the loll we found evidence! of calcareous substances, generally in the form of indurated ealcareous marl, showing many distinct forms of anoient shells, of tbe tertiary forntion;and this marly aubstanoe is scattered all through the soil, in a very comminuted form, and in the exact condition moat easily assimilated by such plants as the farmer desires to eultirnto. Marl in all its forms, hns tieon used to fertilise erops in England, from the time it was ooenpiod by the Romans; and in France and Germany a marl bed ii oonnteden aa a valuable bed of manure.thnt ean be dug and ear tod and spread oror the field. How much more valuable then it must be, when found already mixed through the soil where new particles will be turned up and exposed, and trans orra -d to the owners a-e every time he stirs It e arth. Having then tftUeltd ur a eds of the tausehpy will not he exollcd with wonder at seeing Indubitable evidence of fortillly in a mil which in other situations, having the same general charaeterlstlas or at loaitappearunoos, Is entlroly unromunoratlve except as Unproductiveness is promoted by artificial forlilliation. A few words about the quality and value of this land fur cultivation, of which we liavo itrong proof. Our first visit was to Willinm D. Wilson. Frank. lin township, Olouocstor county; who purchased some eight milos north of Millville, about three yeersago, for the purpose of establishing a stonm mill to work np the tlimor Into lumbar, to send off by the new raiiroau, as wen aa nrowoodand coal for which he built a branch track a mile and a half long. He also furnished sixteen milos of the rond with ties, and has no doubt mado the mill proflta- uto, tiwiiKu uis untiii uujuut una to open a farm having become convinced that the soil was valuable for cultivation. In this he has not boon disappointed, an some of bis erops provo. For instance last year, the second timo of cropping, 300 bushols' of potatoes os one aero, worth 60 conts a bushel In tho field. This year sovon lores vitnout any ma-nure produoed 360 bushels nf oats. In ono field, the first crop was potatoes planted among the roots and yielded 75 buahols. The potatoes wore dug and wheat sowd, and yielded 10 bushels; and tho stubble turned and sown to buckwheat, which yield ed bushels; and then the ground was sown to clover and timothy, whioh gave as a first orop 2W tons por aore. The fortiliiora applied to these orops; woro first ashes from clearings; second 223 pounds superphosphate of limo; third 100 pounds Peruvian guano; then 60 bushels of slakod lime has been spread npon the olerer since it was mowed, and turned in for wheat. Mr1 Wilson'l growing crops, and the wheat stubble of the presont lonson, all indicate his land as Doing productive as any part of the State. At Mary Barrow's, an old style Jersey woman farmer, several miles south of Mr. Wilson's, we were so particularly struck with tho fine appearance of a fiold of oern, that we stopped to inquire of a hired man how it was produced. We found that the lane had been the year but one before in whoat, sown with clover, and this cut one season, and last spring plowed onoo With 'one poor old nag' and planted with corn. i es, Lut you manured high, we suppose? wo laid Interrogatively, and got this roplv Waal, yon see, wo couldn't a done that, because we hadn't but forty one-horse loads altogether, for 23 acres, and we wanted the most on it for the truck.'1 Tho truok consisted of boets.cnrrots, oabbago, en-jumbers, melons, io., and a very productive patch 5f Lima Roans, grown for marketing. So wo wore satisfied that the soil was not infortilo, oven unaided by olovor, whioh had fed tho corn, b eeauso the truok patch had not been cIovored,and had been in cultivation long enough to obliterate all signs of the forest' Our next visit was to the farm of Andrew Sharp five milos north of Millville, from half to a mile east of the railroad, and just about in tho centre of Vinoland. Mr. Sharp eommencod work hero in December, 1858, npon 270 acres. In loss than threo years he has -ot 231 aores cleared and in crops this season, nil woll inclosed and divided into sovornl fields, with cedar rail or pole fence; has built a two story dwelling, about 34 by 40 feet, and a smaller houso for farm laborers, and a ituble or granary and somo other outbuildings. Considorablo part of the land was cleared for the plownt $9por aero, nnd on lome of it thofirst orop was bjokwhoot, limed with 50 bushels in powder perasro. This crop inav bo put in July 4th to20lh and yields 20 to 30 bushels per aero, harvested in Novembor; when tho land boing sowed with 150 lbs of Peruvian guano and seeded with ryo, yielded 12 to 15 bushols por acre nnd $10 worth of straw Tho rye stubbloturnod, after knockine off alarm growth of oak sprouts, and dressod again with gu- iiiia sou sooaou to wnoat, gave io to to Dusuels. Tho crop which he was threshing while we woro there promises more, of a vory plump grain, and the straw is vory heavy. We wont over tho stubble, and found the clover and timothy from seal sowod last spring, on the wheat without harrowing, looking ns well as we evor saw it u.ion any old cultivated farm, and with a little work dono "in the winter to clear off some roots and rotton stumps, nnd setting stakes to mark pormanont ones, he will be ablo to cut tho crop the next year with a mowing machine, and wo will guarantee two tons per aoro, if ho will give the ever pms ii it overruns mo estimate. Part of tho land was planted with notatoos far a first crop, which yielded 120 bushels per acre. It was then limed with 50 bushe nor acre, and seed. ed with wheat and clover, violdini; an avor.itrn of ovor i j uusuois per aero, ana tno clover now looks Doauuim. Other portions have boon planted with corn a a l first crop, which yielded 30 bushols nf vellnw flint corn, nnu tno sooona crop M,orty bushels, ana the third crop, troated 160 lbs of guana, wo aro sure no ono would ostlraoto bol ow 40 bushels per acre. The reader will recollect that tho writor is now speaking of land entirely now, and which ean scarooly bo ooasidorcd in good arable eondition. Ed. In othor cases tho corn orop of last year wos followed with oats this sonson, not yet thrashed, but will average pr bably 40 to 50 bushels. Swcot potatoes, beans, molonsand In foot all garden vegetables, as woll aa young peach and other fruit trees planted this year show very plainly that this long leglontcd tract of land should remain so no longer, and thero Is now a strong probability that it will not; foi under the auspices of Mr. Landis.it will be divided into small lots, with roads located to accommodate all the surveyor is now busy at this work, .and nil purchnsors Will be required to build neat comfortablo housos, and either fonco their lots in uniformity, or agreo to live without fonco, whioh would be proferable, by which means a good population will bo seourod, who will establish churches, schools, stores-mills, nieshanio shops and lmme,s homes of American farmers, suriounded by gnrdeus, orchards, fields and comforts of eivil ized lifo. If any one, from any dornngoment of business, is dosirousof changing his pursuits of lifo, or who is from any cnusa desirous to find a new location and cheap home in the eountry, aud who may read and believe what we have truly stated, bowilldowell to go andse.) for hlmsolf what may be seen within a twohoujs' rldo out of Philadelphia. KUI.ON ROBINSON. JAMES I3LANCIIAUD. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IK MEDICINES, I5 .A. I 1ST T S , OILS, DYE-STUFFS, CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY, And all miscellaneous articles usually kept in Westerr Drug Stores Also CHOICE AND FTJKE LIQUORS ron MEOICAl PURPOSES ONLY. PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS Carefully compounded. Recipes of all kinds carefully put np. EAST SIDE MAIN, Three Doeri North of Oainbier Street, MT. VERNON, O. February 13 no!7 ly D. O. MONTGOMERY, 4&TIGRSEY kl LIW. IN BOOTH BUILDINO OVER MUSIC STORE-Mount Vernon, Ohio. Hneclal attention given to tbo Collecting of Claims, and the purchase and sale of real Estate. n ive for sale unimproved lands as follows, 04v Uiei in Usage County, Missonri, 60S acres in vVarren County, Missouri, 802 acres In St. Fran-oli County, Missouri, also 125 aores and ono 40 icrelotln Hardin County, Ohio, and 83 acres In di reer County, Ohio. March 1 . '59, lo-tf . JOB WORK ' Or ALL XINPSKIiTlT tXCCTTID A T TH IS OFFICE MT. VERKON REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY Juno 12. ALL SORTS OP PARAGRAPHS, iT"Wb.Ri clover invention is tb.- tewing Machine!" said Jones, Yea, tew ji cetms, replied Euiiih. Prentice asks why is Ojn Floyd like one of tbe loil Qjn.nls upon tho Pjto nuo ? Because be is a General Hooker. JTSrThesinilei 0f home are exoecdingly pleasant, mil inure aro many people who nave good Louses, and who piuitr smiling wiiu a friend outsidu. 03Gcneral Banks has received the oOi cial thanks of tho Pr sident and S.-cretttrv of War for his master y rutreat to tbe Po tomao. A young lady advisos us, if we are very "hot for war," to take arms oureelvei. Perhaps, ii she is pretty, we might bo ;n duced to take hers. ZaSTThere is a deed on Cle in Cambridge, Mass. which describes a piece of land as bounded by "stumps and stones, whore Daniel Harrington' licked William Smith." ZarThat was a fearful jest of Lord Norbury'a on sentencing to death a thief who bad stolen a watch: "You made a g'asp at time my lad, but you clutched t-ternity."03" A young cindidate or the legal pro. (csaion was asked what he should do first when employed io bring an action. 'Ask for money on account,' was the prompt reply. Lie passed. jtarOver nine thousand shells were thrown by the fleet in the bombardment of the forts below New Orleans. Most of them were 13.inch shells; which oost, with their tilings, nearly $20 each. WTheh. Y. World, in allusion to high prices at Nashville, says that "chickens that sold a year ago for twenty cents each no command forty to fifty." Tbe Rochester Union thinks that is not an unreasonable icreaee, consideiing iheirage. (T" Henry dear," said a loving wife to her husband the other day, "I wish you would put up that book and talk to me " (A long silence, and no reply.) ! Oh, Ilonry , my foot is asleep!" "Well, don't talk, dear; you might wake it." The bridal alti.e for the Princess Alice. of England, is very nearly completed. The lace baa been preparing in skilful hand? for over Bixieen months, snd the design was chosen by the late Prince Coneort. England has paid simply in interest money on her national debt, during the last one hundred and siztv years, hard cash to tbe enormous amount of 22,130,802, 179, or mote thau ten nnd a half thousand million dollars. y Passing ono of the old Norfolk man sions, Air. rwbcoe lonKiinp; gam ue saw a prim Quaker at ihe window, who, at bis approacn, piousiy exciaicoeu, lran tbe Yankees." The best houses in Norfolk, are occupied by the foreign consul.", who live in much apparent comfort. Exami'-'atios or Soaaeoin. We are re. quested to announce that the Medical Board for the Examination of Surgeons will hold an adjourned meeting on the 17th inst., at tbe Whito Sulphur Springs; near this city. Papers throughout the State are requested to notice this. 0. S Journal. An 1 Mr 1 A Mormon woman thu writes tn a female friend in New York State: While yon of the North and South have gone lo the killing each other off, we of Salt Lake are populating the country with extraordinary rapidity. One of our elders recently h id no less than nine child ren born to bim in one week. 9"One of our soldiers who w s at the Pittsburg Lan ing battle I appened to be inordinately food of card-pUying. During tbe fight he had three of his fingers shot off. Holding up his mangled mem ber, he gazed at it with a look of ineff ble sorrot and exclaimed as a big tear stole in to the corner of his eye, "1 shall never be able to hold a full band again! SoutnERS Riohts. In conversation between a Unionist and Secessionist, before the Federal troops entered Nashville the the latter wanted to know of the Union man if he was ready to Sight for his rights. " . es," was the reply, "o' course 1 am. But I don't see but thai we are gelling out rights fast enough. We have to pay ten ceuts postage, wuen, under the old Government, we had to pay only threo." Still Living. Three of the passengers on board of tbe last ship wh eh left Mas sachusetts with British colors, brore tne American Revolution, are now living! Tbe vessel was tbe Minerva, and sailed from Marblebead eighty seven years ago May 27lh, 1775. The surviving passengers are Miss Copely, Mrs. Gardiner Green and Lord Lyndhurst all ohildren ol Copely. the great artist. yRebel papers are getting anxious about the crop in the south. Letters say the wheat crop in Northern Texas is likely to be lost for lack of harvesters, and there is a ory for gangs of slaves to be sent from the Co ton mates to do toe won. in Georgia, the rust has made its appearance and crre t damago is apprehended. Ar- kansts promises well, but are the rebels quite suie that they are to be the yeapers? Perhaps ont Uen. llaiieci may put in a sickle. Backsd Out. The French have "turned tail snd run" from Puebla, and the Mexicans are jubilant in consequence. Those trench pipers that were so severe upon tbe begira from Bull Run are now placed inanawk ward poBitioo. Tbey are probably ready Io admit, by this time, that "some folks osn do binge as well si others." now Gouaral Bink a Army was snvod Williamspoht, M.!., Way 20, ISGfc Diar Father and MotiIer: You bve P'obtibly heard by '.his timo of tho (hr e days fighting from Strasburg and Front Royal toMtrtinsburg. Our oompany and in the mountains, twelve milos from Stras burg, last Fuday. and when o got with-in two miles of our destination we heard annonading. The Major ordered the baggage to stop, and rur two companies dashed on, and found seven comp tnics of our infantry and two pie cs of artillery eneair- ed w th sevcrnl thousand of the cremy. Just as we arrived on tbe field, Col. Parem, who had command of our fences, rodo up to m? nnd ordered me to take one man and tho .wo fastest horses in our company and ride f r dear Ii 'e to Gen. Ranks' headquarters to Strasburg for reinforo mcnts. The direct roml to Strasburg was occupi -d by the enemy, so I was obliged, to ride round by another road seventeen miles. I roi'e the seventeen miles in CftyCvo minutes. Gi-n. Banks didn't seem to think it very serious, but ordered one regiment of infantry and two pieces of artillery off. I asked Gen. Banks for a fresh horse to rejoin my company, and he gave me tho best horse that I ever rode, and I started b ck. I came out on th Front Royal turnpike, auout two miles tins sue of wnero X left our men. Saw tvo men standing ia the road, and their horses standing by the fence I supposed they we. e our pickets. Thty Qiun t nan me, so i asicea mem H the were pickets? They said no. Say "Who are you?" "We are part of Ge i eral Jackson's staff." I supposed that they were only joking. I laughed, and asked them where Jackson was. They said he was in the advance. I left them and rode towards Front Royal, till I overtook a sol dier, and I asked bim what regiment he belonged to. He said he belonged to the Eighth Louisinnia. I asked bow large a lorce they hid, and the reply was, "twenty thousand." I turned back and drew my revolver, expecting cither a desperate fi-'ht or a Southern jail, but the officers in the road didn" stop me, and I was lucky en ough not to meet any of thci pickets. But if it was not a narrow escapo, then I don't know what is. When I got out of the enemy's lines, I rodo as fast as the horse conld car y me to Gen, Banks and reported what I b d seen and heard. He fftid I bnd saved the army. In less than an hour the whole army was in motion towards Winchester. After I left Front Royal to take the first dispatch to Strasburg, our two companies of cavalry, who were covering the retreat of thd infantry and b iggage, were attacked on three aides by about three thousand of the ene my's cavalry. Our boys fought like devils, till nearly half of them wire killed or wounded, and then retreated to Winches ler. Wo had a battle at Winchester, got licked, and retreated. Our company and company E were ordered to cover a Parrot gun battery, and bring up tbe rear. We rode all the way from Winchester to Mar tinsburg with cannon shot and shell flying around us faster than it dm at bull Kun, We crossed the Potomao last night. It wri so dark we couldn't find the ford and had to swim cur horses across. We had got our batteries in position on this side, aad tbe rear ot the army is crossing. From your son, CHARLEY II. GREENLEAF, Company D. 6th N. Y. Cavalry 03General McClellan'a valuable adjunct to his corps d' armee, the Lowe reconnoiter ing balloon, is getting to be quite an institu ti.n. During a tljht lately, between tbe rebels and a forco ol Union troops, in which the lat ter were engaged in dislodging some batteries that had been erected, .he balloon did effective service in diiectiog tbe movements of cur artillery. A t ele graph wiro attached to an instrument on board, conveyed intelligence to our men what to do, and what not to do, and corrected any mistakes made by the trans-. mission of such messages, as "Too short," ' just a little over," "fire lower," " the last shot took them," io. Ihe enemy oould not be seen by tbe men at tbe batteries, and our batteries in turn were bid from the view of the enemy, tbe majority tf whose shots foil wide of the mark. The Sombre Aspects of the War. The discharged soldiers from the hospital crippled beyond tbe power of fuuher duty, aro beginning to contrast with a shade o1 gloom tho gaiety of the promeaados, Tho spectacle is a sad one, and the more so bocaus8 Irotn the eye of the presont generaiioo it w l' never disappear. Wounded men some armless, some with legs shot away are scr in the s nets singly and In little groups living monuments ot traitor malignity and fratricidal ambition. Of the 7000 men in the hospitals in this city, at less 1000, we are informed, are incapacitated from further service, and will pass mutilated to their graves We see the poor fellows everywhere, limp ing uncmplainingly along, content tbat they have fought io a good cause, and grateful for any courtesy shown to tbem. We hive seen puppies in Lroadclolh who oontumaliously jostled against them. We have ssen noble hearted ladies in costly silks not too proud to yield to them tbe right of way, snd to salute them as thoy hobbloJ past. We saw such a lady yest.rJay quietly pisi to tbs conductor the fare for four erippled soldier who entered the vehicle as she alighted, and who passed on their way none .be wiser uns til the conductor enlighteoel th-ia on the subject. If anybody is enti led to regard and kind treatment it is the wounded soldier. Foi fifty ytars to come tbe maimed and tho crippled will temper tbs splendors of the prom enade. Fbil.Gaietto; 1'ats or a Tbaitob A correspondent 0 the Cincinnati Qjzitte, with Gen. Mitchell's Division of the army at HuntsvilU, Ala. relates the following: Walking through one of tbe most pleas i,Dt 0f lluntsville's beautiful streets to day the bare and blackened walls of a once splendid bouse presented themselves to my view, Tbe geatleman at my side remaiked there is a sad history connected with thou ruini. T.ie man who owned the property was, a few weeks since, second in influence to no on In the South, with a lovely family, a thorou'h education, and groat wealth. It seemed tbat nothing was lacking to complete his earthly happiness. In one short month he was hurled from his proud position of in fluence in Davis's Cabinet; his two young sons were lying dangerously wounded in the Corinth liofpita a; his city and oountry mansions laid wiste by an incendiary torch, an exile from his home, houseless; wifeless. Pepe Walker is turned adroit upon tbe cold charities of a pet pie whom he bas been instrumental in docelviag into a cruel rebellion. How cmblamatio of Gen. Walker's fortunos are these desolate walM A Joke on the Cavalry. A correspondent writing from Qen Fre mont's headquarters when thoy were at Franklin, tells a good story of a soranading attempt by the Band of the Connecticut Cav airy. Thoy were dirocted to a certain tent as that of Gen. Fromont. Their b)st tunes were discoursed uitil Oin. Schenck stepped out, and peiceividg their mistake, mads a spocch as if he was Frew nt. They discovered their mistake, and, being sure that another tent was the one they were in search of, opened their brazen throatB again. Hut what was their dismay, whon abou1 half through the first verse ot "John Brown's soul is marchiug on," &o., a furious Dutch man cams rushing at them and with gesticu lations which frightened the song out of tbe mouth of the serensdors. said: "What for you makes dish Oot-tam noish." "Go t h 11 mit your hpwlingsh." "Quart, charge on these noishes Got tarn." Our amiable Major stood dumbfounded at this unwarran t- ed attack, and believing a masterly retreat more glorious than a bloody advance, left the gesticulating Dutch aid-de-catnp in po session of the field. Leader ConisTn, Juno 6. A general order from Gen. Halleck siys: The Stato of Missouri except the counties of Mississippi, New Mad rid and Pemiscot, will hereafter constitute the m unary district or Missouri, to be commanded by Brig. Oon. Schofield; the force in southwest Missouri howrver.will be subject to the orders of Major ion. Curtis, com. mander and Militar, Governor of Arkansas The county of Mississippi will belong to the District of Cairo, under Gen. Strong, and the counties of New Madrid and PtmiBcot, Dis trict ofColumbua, under Ganoral Q'liinby. SOUTH' CAROLINA. " A letter received lecently in New York from a lawyer in Charleston gives a very gloomy statement of the condition of affairs in that city. He says that there were , Urge number of rospectable wealthy and influential persons who were, like himsel. thoroughly opposed to the whole secession movemont, but thoy were overborne and si -.S.l. , toocea oyiuemass. no man flare avow such a santimont there, no matter what his standing or position, lie had himself already paid $2 500, which had been exacted as a contribution towards the expenses ol the movement, and there was every prospec that these exactions would grow heavier and moro frequent. Tbe condition of affairs, he said was perfectly aw hi such as he had never expected to sea io this country. The mob had complete control, and tho conserva tives were paralyzed . Abolition ofPoIygamy, Tbe Senate passed the House bill with a alight amendment, abolishing polygamy in all the territories of Ihe United States, an making tbe penalty for the vio'ation of th laws five hundred dollars and imprisonment not less than five years. It also provides that no church in any territory shall own more thau fifty thousand dollars worth o property. No IIUNOABIAKS AhOMO TBS EfDILS When Gen Fremont was at tbe West, bis moat secret dispatches to the Prosident were sont in Magyar, which was as gooj as cipher, since no traitor knows tbe tongue. What a compliment to the native tongue o' Kossuth "No traitor knows tbe tongue!' tt is said that there is no record of sny Uun garian being in the rebel service, though .here are many in our army. Jaokson's Raid Down tho Val ey of v lrgnia. The New York Tribune bas lbs follow ing interesting dirpatches, concerning tbe late raid ot Jackson: Gen. Satxon has arrived here, having bee:i r.lieved of bis command at Harper's Ferry by Gen. Sigel. With 7,000 raw troops he kept tbe rebel army, which h d driven Gen. Banks out of the valley, at bay, and with bis artillery planted on Bolivar and (he Maryland lle ghts, repulsed their attacks several times, nnd saved tho railroad bridge and tbo depot of stores. It is believed lhat Jackson had nt less than 20, 00 J man there, while not mare than 600 v,ent to Martinsburg. They were commanded by Gens. Jack son, Ewell, Taylor, Trimble, and Winder and 6 nsistcd of Louisianin, Mississippi,) Georgia, and Virgi.iia troops, the best fio.n each state in the rebel army. Fifty pieces of artillery were counted passing through Charlestown. When J ackson saw that be was foiled in LI- attempt to cross into Maryland he fairly oried. scoording to the re port of a deserter. Glorious News from Mississippi. Waiiisoton, Juno 4. The following d'epMch was received this afternoon at tho War Department: Hallkck's HsADQUAiiTEai, June 4. To Hon. E. M. Stmto .Secretary of War.! r in . :,i .,i.w.,. . .! uenerai rope, nu u,wu men, in 30 miles south of Corinth. The nnemv U pressed hold. He already reports 10.000 Browne, "presuming therein tbat a partic-prisoners and deserters from the enemy, uinr veael, nervo, vein, or artery, is con and 15 000 stand of nrms cup ured ' icrred th reto from 'he liart;" which di-Thousnnds of Ihe t neiny sre throwing awny ! red vatcuW communication Browne shows' their arms. I to be anatomicallv Incc.rrpft. Nfarrrnhin A farmer 6ays when Beauregard learned gives aro her reason, which may perhaps that Col. Elliot ha 1 cut tbe ratlroid oi his rati fy those aifttomisis who are not talis-' line of retreat, be became franile, and told , tied with the above "Poller,' be say, his men to save hemselves the bcel wuy "or thumb,(wliose derivative polleo,- and tbev could. . from its Greek equivalent anticherr.which We captured n no locomotives and ' mean 'as good as a hand,' is to busy to number of cars: oue ot tbo former is alnrdy j be act aparl for any auch epeoial employ-repdired and is running to dny. Several meut.the next Augur to the thumb being mro will be in runnini; order in a few , but half orotecled on that side, boaldea days. The result is all that I could t o - siLily disire. (Signed) H. W. HALLECK. Maj Gen. Commandicg. CnrcAOo, June 4, A special Cairo dis. patch says. Immediately on the occupa. tion of Corinth by tbe forces from Gen Pope's division, sent out in pursuit of such rtbels as had fled westward, Gen. Granger in command of two regiments of oavaalry, soon came on the rear of the enemy, six mites southwest or Corinth and engaged in a fitfht. We lost 60 men, and was afterwards largely reinforced, when tbe rebels were surrounded. It is said that from hve to ten thousand rebels were enptured. A portion of there have reached Pi tsburg Landing, enroute to the Northern military prisons. tt tbd last account Gener I Pope was nine miles Southwest of Corinth, at which point his whole corps had reached.An Illi ots Dwarf.- Tom Thumb is oat-done. The race of infinitesimal bipeds is eclipsed. The em ill mortal, tbe mini mum pigmy of creation, has grown up here in Logan county: Torr. Thumb is nowhere. A young man by the name f John Green, twenty years of ags, and residing near this place, measures it is said, just two inches less in height than Barnum's "pel" and is sroullcr iu proporlioa every way. He comes to town occasionally snd rides upon the streets on a imall biped, his little legs descending scarcely below the animal' back He la really a curiosity. -Lincoln (111 ) Herald. Y.'heelimo, June 2 During the v'olent and terrific storm at one o'clock this morning the residence of Joshua P.llsbary was strut k by lightning, instantly killing Miss Mary K. Pillsbury and Miss Clara Goodwin. Th8 latter was to have been married to tbe former's brother to-oay. Miss Goodwin only arrived on Saturday from Sonth Berwick Maine. Tbe house was slightly injured. Picahih v Spkculatoks. A number ol years ago a bee black man of Washington raised sufficient money to purchase a black woman. By I er he has since raised a fain-i'y of six or sovon children. As by the law of the District, tho child follows the coud . lion of the mother, ol course these children are his slaves. He has, therefore, filed his claim and asked payment from the Govern-ment, valuing his "picaninies" at $300 each- -Boston Post. 03r Since Geo. Halleck took command at Pittsburg Landing, our amy has built, in credible as the story may sound, more than fi'ty miles of intrenchmonts, and lull two hundred miles of wagon roads! Four parallels, each more than twelve miles in length, three or four roads wide, corduroyed and bridged leading from the landing to each corpi d' armee all the works of our men"- many o' whom never before handled a spade or an axe in their lives. More Roleasod Frisouors. (Herald's Dispatch.) Nahvills, June 4. Wynkoop's Penn sylvania cavalry made a dash into Winchester to day, disp rting a largi force ol reb els, and capturing a fighting preacher, Captain Trimball. One thousand five hundred Union prison ers, enptured by the rebels at Shiloh, ar rived here to day, released on parole. The rebels had not enough to feed them, tbey had but one ration on Friday. Tbey had b.cn taken to Georgia. XyOne of tbe volunteers who respon ded :o Gov. Tod's last proclamation and wentnp to tolumbns, was seen walking on High street in front of the State Ho ne viewin6 H from top to foundtion and from si lo to end. After looking at it for some time be inquired of a gentleman if that wasrt the LapitolT "xesl" replied the1 man, "that is tbe Capitol." Well," says the volunteer. don't see why in thunde Gov. Tod should telegraph' that the Capitol is in danger; it looks all light enough to me. It was thought that said volun Mr ai s'ighily inebriated. It is positively known tht 'ie was not Press. from Zinesville. Zirebvilk- yThe Nashville Union of May 30 h learns tbat Col. Newman's Infantry regiment, which was raised in the oountiea cf Bedford, Marshall, and adjoining counties Tenn., left Beauregard's army at CorinUi in masses some days ago, and n t now on their way home. This regiment was composed of twelve months' men, who refused to be forced in (be service any org r, although gro-1 effjris were m Jo to ni rain them, they being the mrst valuable in tbe service. They are completely disguisted with tht rebellion. Tbe boys wron as a motto on their bats. "Home or He'l " Thousands niore are ami' ns to fo'low. . The Wedding-Ring Pingof. This is the fourth finger on tbe loft hand. Why this parttoub r digit shojld have received such a token of honor and trust beyond all its congeners, both tnPa. gan and Christian times, has bien various-Iv intemru'e I. "fh.smost eommnn nlanaiion ra." ai-corrlimr la Sir Thnm : having other work to do, is also intligble. I Hie approbrium attaching (of tbe middle finger, called medious, puts it entirely out oi me question; ana as the little bnger stands exposed, and is moreover too puny to enter Ihe li ts in such a contest, the1 spousal honors develoved naturally on pronobus, the wedding fingar " Ia The Bri ish Apollo, 1738, it is Urged that the I fourth finger was cbosen from its bein? not only less used than either of tho rest. but more capable of preserving a ring from bruises, having this one quality peculiar to itself, that it cannot be extended but in company with somo other finger whereas tbe rest may be stretcehd oat W their lull length and s'.raigh!neis Pnsonors Released Bo bels Sisoon tent. NAsnviu.t.June 4 Tbe train frosi Co lumbit brought here this morning 1 6001 Ftd.-rnl prisoners nf Gen. Prentiss' division, who were taken at Pittsburg Land ing They came from Micon, Turcnloosn and Montgomery, and were paroled in eon-s q uen co of the rebels being unable to feed them. A di? patch to Gen. Johnson froto Gen Negley, oi yesterday, says that Wynkoop'e cavalry made o dash into Winchester and scattered Storr's rebel cavalry in all directions, cur men ohasing them over the caun-try.Tuey roport ti'iiveml disaoii'ent among the rebel soldiers, who are anxious to gu Lome The j rivates say they are whipped out. Four hoodred raoia paroled prisoners will arrive here to-morrow. The. speech of Ex-Governor Brown is netting a powerful influence on hundred wbo have been led into secession. The Flood la Pennsylvania. Eastoh, Pa., June 6. Feaiful accounts' of damages bave been received front Munch Chunk and vicini' v. The dam there as wel as at two other places, were swept away, and mtnj houses were washed off" the Kailroitd bridge is also gone. C nal navigation is stopped for tho season. The Lehigh Valley rai road will not be in running order for revcrul weeks. The town of Womport is Washed away; there were bnt three houses left out of about three hundred. The !os of life has been quite large. The Lehigh Valley railroad ia badly torn up. The Belvadier and Delaware railroad can b . repaired in a few days. The Delaware, Laoawan and Western railroad will be running in about a week. A part of the basin of the Delaware canal here has been washed out. The damage in Glon-don is n ry great. The furnaces are all chilled. The lumbrmen are heavy loosen. Millions ot feet of sawed lumber and thousands of logs have been carried away. Tbe number of persons drowned is not yet as' certained. Eugenie's last New Petticoat. The Empress Eugene has long beri ambitious of having a petticoat which shall not be imitated by every woman iti Christendom and, according to the London Herald's Paiis correnpondent, she has njw uoceeded. Tbe wonderful garment is made of carabrio raulin, so. tbat the warberwoman cannct stiffen it to much. I a circuralerence is six yards at the widest (?) kit, and it is covered 6y nine flounces of still greater circumferenoe. The lowest of these fljunces is a mere frill; tbo second, a 1 tile larger a dcon-i-ideiably wider.completely covers the firsts Thu third does the same to the Second and so on till one gre.U fl)unoe falls completely over the other eight, each one of which, to arrive t the standard of ioipu rial ilnganoe, must bo hem stiched like a lady's pocket handkerchief, and the other one in addition be nearly covered with the embf jldety dche by the women of the Yos es. This invention af-o sets its aae against the sewing machine aa nearly every part of it mi si be handwork. It wa purposely so designed to prevent an immense nnmber of seamstresses being suddenly thrown out of work by th increased demand for Machine teiritf. whioh is not yei capable of iff o ivg tea at job oi embroidery. From Washington. WisBiscioH, Junt 6. A reliable toiofl. ofSoer, wbo was tea days in tbe bands ef the rebels at Winchester, where h talked freely with their i (Beers, sa tbat tUj Kvn to lock forward to tbe desthK'.ka of &t great armus as a thing sure to happtii sooner or later, and had made op theif minds to tale to the bush tnd waft a gd-erilla or partisan warfare, in which thby said they felt themselves at home. The officers struck onr informant as a fiae set of men, and were devoted body and srul to the enn3 of the rebellion; but he thought that most of ti soldiers s (tried not to bavr iheir heart ia thebinncss. M nisti-r Morris not'fies the 8(nt De-parlmei t tbat the Turk:sh Departmert has; isiued an order foi bidding the Confederate privateer admission to any porta of th O. toman Empire, in accordance with th proririons of tbe treaty cf Parts of Iff?, j . . . . - V

111 1Y VAA AVL 4i war gqiIi MOUNT "VERNON, OHIO ' THURSDAY, JUNE 12. 18C2. VOL. VIII. HO. 32 Vino and. TO ALL WAOTrNG FARMS. NEW StlTLEMKNT OF YINKbAND. A REMEDY FOrIaRD TIMES. A Kara opportunity in tho Best Markot, and Most Delightiul and Healthful Climate la Hi Unlo.i, Only Thirty Miles South of -Philadelphia, on ft Railroad, boina; Itich, Heavy Soil, and a Highly Products Wheat Land, Among the Dest in the Oar rien Rtite of New Jers"y . It eoniiata of 20,000 acroi of good land, diviJoil Into fam of dilTuront niiea to iuit tht purchaaer from 20 aerea and upwards and . la anM at the rate of from IIS to $20 per aero (or tho form land parable one-fourth oaah-and 'ho balanoe byquarter-yearly instalment, with legal intereat, wllhln the term of four yean. TUB ROIL 1, In greet part, a Rich Clay I.oam, aultablo for Wheat, Grau and Potntooa also a dark and rich aandy loam, rnitable for corn . iweet po'.atoea, to-Won, all klmta of vecetablea and root crops, and the ftnoitrarletloi of fruit, auoh aa ftrapea, I'oarf, t'enohet, Apricots, Nootarinos, lllaokberrloe, Molona and other fruits, best adapted to the Philadelphia and Now York markets. In respect to the loll and erops there can bo no mistako, as visitors can examine both, and none are expooted to buy bofore so doing; and finding these statements eorroot under these eircumstanoos, unlosa there statements were eorreot, there would be no use In their loing mane, jt la ooisulereil TIIE BEST FKCIT SOIL IN TIIE UNION, See Reports of Solon Robinson, Esq., of the N. Y. Tribune, and the woll-known egricullarlst, Wm Parry of Cinuaniinaon, New Jersey, which will be 4U..I.0JJOU inquirers. j THE MARKET. Hy looking over a map the rotidor will perceive that It enjoys the uost narkot In the Union, anil nn direct communication with New York and Philadelphia twice a day, being only thirty-two tniloa from the tatter. Produce in this market brings double the price that it docs in locations tlistant from the cities. In this location it can be put into markot tho same morning it is 'gathered, and for what tho farmer sells he gets the highest priee; whilst groceries and othor articles he purchases he gets at the lowest prioe. In the West, what he sells brings him a pittance, but for what he buys he pays two prices. In locating here the i "ttler!has many other advantages. He is within a w hours by railroad, of all tho great citioe of Now K .lgland and the Middle States. He I near his old friends and associations. He has school for his children, dirino serrice, and nil the advantages of vn iiiiairiuu, huh no is mmr t. lurgit ciiy. THE CLIMATE Is delightful: the wlntors being salubrious and open, whilst the summers are no warmer than in the North. The location is upon tho lino of latitude with Northorn Virginia. Porsons wanting a ohango of climate for health, would be much benefitted in Vinoland. The mildness of the climato and its bracing influence, makes itexcollent for all pulmonary affections, dyspepsia, or general debility, Visitors will notice a diffor-ejeo in a few dnvs. Chills and fevers are unknown. CONVENIENCES AT nAND. Building material is plenty. Fish and oysters are plentiful and cheap. Visitors must expect however to see a newpl-iee. WIIY THE PROPERTY HAS NOT DEEN SET-TIED BEFORE. This question the reader naturally asks. Ttis becinao it has been held in largo tracts by families not disposed to sell, and boing witho it railroad facilities they bad few inducements, Tho railroad has just been openod through the property this season for the first time. Visitors are shown over tho land in n carriage, free of expense, an 'nffordod time and opportunity for thorough investigation. Thoso who eome with a view to settle, should bring money to secure their purchases, as loca tions are not held upon refusal. Tho safest thing in hard timo?,whoro people have been thrown on t of employment or business, and possess some little means or small incomos,is to start thcuiselvos a home. They can buy a piece nf land at a small price, and earn more than wages In improving it; and when ttis done it isaeortain in-drpndenoo and no bus. A few acres in fruit trees will insure a comfortable living. The land is put down to hard timo prices, and all improvements can be made at a chonpor rate than most any othor timo. The whole tract with six milos front on tho railroad, is boing laid out with fine and spnoious nven-uos with a town in the ccntro five aero lots in the town sell at from $150 to $200; two and-a-half aero tots at from $30 to $120, and town lots SO feet Vont by 150 feotdoop; at $100 payable ono half cash and the balance within a year. It is only upon farms of twonty acres, or nioro, that fouryoars' timo is given. TO MANUFACTURERS, the town nftVdsafine opening for tho shoo manufacturing business, and other articles, being near Philadelphia, and the surrounding country has a large population, which affords a good market. This settlement in theeourso of a several years, will bo one of the most beantiful places in the country, and most ogreonble tor a residence. It is intended tomako it a Vine and Fruit growing oountry, as this culture is the most piafitable and tho boat adapted to tho market, fcvory advantage andeonvonienoe for settlers will bo Introduced which will insure the prosperity of the place The hard times throughout the country will bean advantage to the settlement, as it compels people to resort to agriculture lor a living. Large numbers of people are purchasing, and peo pie who desire the best location should vUit the place at once. Improved land i also for sale. TIMBER Land can be bought either with or without tiinbor. The Timbur at markot valuation. The Title is Indisputable. Warrantoe Deeds given, olear of all incumbrance, whon tbo money is paid. Boarding conveniences at hand. Letters promptly answered, and Reports af Solon Robinson and Wml'arr' sent, together wich the Vinoland Rural. Route to tho Land: Leave Walnut street wharf Philadzpithiaat 9 o'clock, A M an J PM, unloss there should be a ehango nf hour for Vinoland, on the Ola9.4boro and Millville railroad. When you leave the earl t Vinoland Station, just opened, in q'lire for CIUS-K. I.ANDI3, Postmaster, Founder of the Colony, VlSKHNDP. O., CCHKEBLAND Oo.. N J. P. 8. There is a change of cars at Olassboro. A lsn beware of sharnor on the cars from New York and Philadelphia to Vinoland, inquiring your business, destination, so. u ly . .REPORT OF SOLON ROBINSON. OF TnE NEW tORK TRIBUNE, CFOM Tit VINELAND SETTLEMENT pjyThe following Is an extract from the report of Solon Robinson, Esq., published in tho New York Tribune, it reference to Vineland. All persons can road this report with interest. Advantages of Fat ming near nome Vine-land Remarks upon Marl Soil, its great Fertility The Cause of Fertility Amount of Crops Produced Praotical Evidence. Itis certainly one of the most extensive fertile tracts, in an almost level position, and suitable condition for pleasant farminj that we know of this side of the western prairies. We found Soros of the oldest farms apparently just as profitably productive a when first oleared of forest fifty er a hundred years ago. The geologist would loon discover the eanse of this eontinned fertility. The whole country is a marine deposit, and all through the loll we found evidence! of calcareous substances, generally in the form of indurated ealcareous marl, showing many distinct forms of anoient shells, of tbe tertiary forntion;and this marly aubstanoe is scattered all through the soil, in a very comminuted form, and in the exact condition moat easily assimilated by such plants as the farmer desires to eultirnto. Marl in all its forms, hns tieon used to fertilise erops in England, from the time it was ooenpiod by the Romans; and in France and Germany a marl bed ii oonnteden aa a valuable bed of manure.thnt ean be dug and ear tod and spread oror the field. How much more valuable then it must be, when found already mixed through the soil where new particles will be turned up and exposed, and trans orra -d to the owners a-e every time he stirs It e arth. Having then tftUeltd ur a eds of the tausehpy will not he exollcd with wonder at seeing Indubitable evidence of fortillly in a mil which in other situations, having the same general charaeterlstlas or at loaitappearunoos, Is entlroly unromunoratlve except as Unproductiveness is promoted by artificial forlilliation. A few words about the quality and value of this land fur cultivation, of which we liavo itrong proof. Our first visit was to Willinm D. Wilson. Frank. lin township, Olouocstor county; who purchased some eight milos north of Millville, about three yeersago, for the purpose of establishing a stonm mill to work np the tlimor Into lumbar, to send off by the new raiiroau, as wen aa nrowoodand coal for which he built a branch track a mile and a half long. He also furnished sixteen milos of the rond with ties, and has no doubt mado the mill proflta- uto, tiwiiKu uis untiii uujuut una to open a farm having become convinced that the soil was valuable for cultivation. In this he has not boon disappointed, an some of bis erops provo. For instance last year, the second timo of cropping, 300 bushols' of potatoes os one aero, worth 60 conts a bushel In tho field. This year sovon lores vitnout any ma-nure produoed 360 bushels nf oats. In ono field, the first crop was potatoes planted among the roots and yielded 75 buahols. The potatoes wore dug and wheat sowd, and yielded 10 bushels; and tho stubble turned and sown to buckwheat, which yield ed bushels; and then the ground was sown to clover and timothy, whioh gave as a first orop 2W tons por aore. The fortiliiora applied to these orops; woro first ashes from clearings; second 223 pounds superphosphate of limo; third 100 pounds Peruvian guano; then 60 bushels of slakod lime has been spread npon the olerer since it was mowed, and turned in for wheat. Mr1 Wilson'l growing crops, and the wheat stubble of the presont lonson, all indicate his land as Doing productive as any part of the State. At Mary Barrow's, an old style Jersey woman farmer, several miles south of Mr. Wilson's, we were so particularly struck with tho fine appearance of a fiold of oern, that we stopped to inquire of a hired man how it was produced. We found that the lane had been the year but one before in whoat, sown with clover, and this cut one season, and last spring plowed onoo With 'one poor old nag' and planted with corn. i es, Lut you manured high, we suppose? wo laid Interrogatively, and got this roplv Waal, yon see, wo couldn't a done that, because we hadn't but forty one-horse loads altogether, for 23 acres, and we wanted the most on it for the truck.'1 Tho truok consisted of boets.cnrrots, oabbago, en-jumbers, melons, io., and a very productive patch 5f Lima Roans, grown for marketing. So wo wore satisfied that the soil was not infortilo, oven unaided by olovor, whioh had fed tho corn, b eeauso the truok patch had not been cIovored,and had been in cultivation long enough to obliterate all signs of the forest' Our next visit was to the farm of Andrew Sharp five milos north of Millville, from half to a mile east of the railroad, and just about in tho centre of Vinoland. Mr. Sharp eommencod work hero in December, 1858, npon 270 acres. In loss than threo years he has -ot 231 aores cleared and in crops this season, nil woll inclosed and divided into sovornl fields, with cedar rail or pole fence; has built a two story dwelling, about 34 by 40 feet, and a smaller houso for farm laborers, and a ituble or granary and somo other outbuildings. Considorablo part of the land was cleared for the plownt $9por aero, nnd on lome of it thofirst orop was bjokwhoot, limed with 50 bushels in powder perasro. This crop inav bo put in July 4th to20lh and yields 20 to 30 bushels per aero, harvested in Novembor; when tho land boing sowed with 150 lbs of Peruvian guano and seeded with ryo, yielded 12 to 15 bushols por acre nnd $10 worth of straw Tho rye stubbloturnod, after knockine off alarm growth of oak sprouts, and dressod again with gu- iiiia sou sooaou to wnoat, gave io to to Dusuels. Tho crop which he was threshing while we woro there promises more, of a vory plump grain, and the straw is vory heavy. We wont over tho stubble, and found the clover and timothy from seal sowod last spring, on the wheat without harrowing, looking ns well as we evor saw it u.ion any old cultivated farm, and with a little work dono "in the winter to clear off some roots and rotton stumps, nnd setting stakes to mark pormanont ones, he will be ablo to cut tho crop the next year with a mowing machine, and wo will guarantee two tons per aoro, if ho will give the ever pms ii it overruns mo estimate. Part of tho land was planted with notatoos far a first crop, which yielded 120 bushels per acre. It was then limed with 50 bushe nor acre, and seed. ed with wheat and clover, violdini; an avor.itrn of ovor i j uusuois per aero, ana tno clover now looks Doauuim. Other portions have boon planted with corn a a l first crop, which yielded 30 bushols nf vellnw flint corn, nnu tno sooona crop M,orty bushels, ana the third crop, troated 160 lbs of guana, wo aro sure no ono would ostlraoto bol ow 40 bushels per acre. The reader will recollect that tho writor is now speaking of land entirely now, and which ean scarooly bo ooasidorcd in good arable eondition. Ed. In othor cases tho corn orop of last year wos followed with oats this sonson, not yet thrashed, but will average pr bably 40 to 50 bushels. Swcot potatoes, beans, molonsand In foot all garden vegetables, as woll aa young peach and other fruit trees planted this year show very plainly that this long leglontcd tract of land should remain so no longer, and thero Is now a strong probability that it will not; foi under the auspices of Mr. Landis.it will be divided into small lots, with roads located to accommodate all the surveyor is now busy at this work, .and nil purchnsors Will be required to build neat comfortablo housos, and either fonco their lots in uniformity, or agreo to live without fonco, whioh would be proferable, by which means a good population will bo seourod, who will establish churches, schools, stores-mills, nieshanio shops and lmme,s homes of American farmers, suriounded by gnrdeus, orchards, fields and comforts of eivil ized lifo. If any one, from any dornngoment of business, is dosirousof changing his pursuits of lifo, or who is from any cnusa desirous to find a new location and cheap home in the eountry, aud who may read and believe what we have truly stated, bowilldowell to go andse.) for hlmsolf what may be seen within a twohoujs' rldo out of Philadelphia. KUI.ON ROBINSON. JAMES I3LANCIIAUD. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IK MEDICINES, I5 .A. I 1ST T S , OILS, DYE-STUFFS, CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY, And all miscellaneous articles usually kept in Westerr Drug Stores Also CHOICE AND FTJKE LIQUORS ron MEOICAl PURPOSES ONLY. PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS Carefully compounded. Recipes of all kinds carefully put np. EAST SIDE MAIN, Three Doeri North of Oainbier Street, MT. VERNON, O. February 13 no!7 ly D. O. MONTGOMERY, 4&TIGRSEY kl LIW. IN BOOTH BUILDINO OVER MUSIC STORE-Mount Vernon, Ohio. Hneclal attention given to tbo Collecting of Claims, and the purchase and sale of real Estate. n ive for sale unimproved lands as follows, 04v Uiei in Usage County, Missonri, 60S acres in vVarren County, Missouri, 802 acres In St. Fran-oli County, Missouri, also 125 aores and ono 40 icrelotln Hardin County, Ohio, and 83 acres In di reer County, Ohio. March 1 . '59, lo-tf . JOB WORK ' Or ALL XINPSKIiTlT tXCCTTID A T TH IS OFFICE MT. VERKON REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY Juno 12. ALL SORTS OP PARAGRAPHS, iT"Wb.Ri clover invention is tb.- tewing Machine!" said Jones, Yea, tew ji cetms, replied Euiiih. Prentice asks why is Ojn Floyd like one of tbe loil Qjn.nls upon tho Pjto nuo ? Because be is a General Hooker. JTSrThesinilei 0f home are exoecdingly pleasant, mil inure aro many people who nave good Louses, and who piuitr smiling wiiu a friend outsidu. 03Gcneral Banks has received the oOi cial thanks of tho Pr sident and S.-cretttrv of War for his master y rutreat to tbe Po tomao. A young lady advisos us, if we are very "hot for war," to take arms oureelvei. Perhaps, ii she is pretty, we might bo ;n duced to take hers. ZaSTThere is a deed on Cle in Cambridge, Mass. which describes a piece of land as bounded by "stumps and stones, whore Daniel Harrington' licked William Smith." ZarThat was a fearful jest of Lord Norbury'a on sentencing to death a thief who bad stolen a watch: "You made a g'asp at time my lad, but you clutched t-ternity."03" A young cindidate or the legal pro. (csaion was asked what he should do first when employed io bring an action. 'Ask for money on account,' was the prompt reply. Lie passed. jtarOver nine thousand shells were thrown by the fleet in the bombardment of the forts below New Orleans. Most of them were 13.inch shells; which oost, with their tilings, nearly $20 each. WTheh. Y. World, in allusion to high prices at Nashville, says that "chickens that sold a year ago for twenty cents each no command forty to fifty." Tbe Rochester Union thinks that is not an unreasonable icreaee, consideiing iheirage. (T" Henry dear," said a loving wife to her husband the other day, "I wish you would put up that book and talk to me " (A long silence, and no reply.) ! Oh, Ilonry , my foot is asleep!" "Well, don't talk, dear; you might wake it." The bridal alti.e for the Princess Alice. of England, is very nearly completed. The lace baa been preparing in skilful hand? for over Bixieen months, snd the design was chosen by the late Prince Coneort. England has paid simply in interest money on her national debt, during the last one hundred and siztv years, hard cash to tbe enormous amount of 22,130,802, 179, or mote thau ten nnd a half thousand million dollars. y Passing ono of the old Norfolk man sions, Air. rwbcoe lonKiinp; gam ue saw a prim Quaker at ihe window, who, at bis approacn, piousiy exciaicoeu, lran tbe Yankees." The best houses in Norfolk, are occupied by the foreign consul.", who live in much apparent comfort. Exami'-'atios or Soaaeoin. We are re. quested to announce that the Medical Board for the Examination of Surgeons will hold an adjourned meeting on the 17th inst., at tbe Whito Sulphur Springs; near this city. Papers throughout the State are requested to notice this. 0. S Journal. An 1 Mr 1 A Mormon woman thu writes tn a female friend in New York State: While yon of the North and South have gone lo the killing each other off, we of Salt Lake are populating the country with extraordinary rapidity. One of our elders recently h id no less than nine child ren born to bim in one week. 9"One of our soldiers who w s at the Pittsburg Lan ing battle I appened to be inordinately food of card-pUying. During tbe fight he had three of his fingers shot off. Holding up his mangled mem ber, he gazed at it with a look of ineff ble sorrot and exclaimed as a big tear stole in to the corner of his eye, "1 shall never be able to hold a full band again! SoutnERS Riohts. In conversation between a Unionist and Secessionist, before the Federal troops entered Nashville the the latter wanted to know of the Union man if he was ready to Sight for his rights. " . es," was the reply, "o' course 1 am. But I don't see but thai we are gelling out rights fast enough. We have to pay ten ceuts postage, wuen, under the old Government, we had to pay only threo." Still Living. Three of the passengers on board of tbe last ship wh eh left Mas sachusetts with British colors, brore tne American Revolution, are now living! Tbe vessel was tbe Minerva, and sailed from Marblebead eighty seven years ago May 27lh, 1775. The surviving passengers are Miss Copely, Mrs. Gardiner Green and Lord Lyndhurst all ohildren ol Copely. the great artist. yRebel papers are getting anxious about the crop in the south. Letters say the wheat crop in Northern Texas is likely to be lost for lack of harvesters, and there is a ory for gangs of slaves to be sent from the Co ton mates to do toe won. in Georgia, the rust has made its appearance and crre t damago is apprehended. Ar- kansts promises well, but are the rebels quite suie that they are to be the yeapers? Perhaps ont Uen. llaiieci may put in a sickle. Backsd Out. The French have "turned tail snd run" from Puebla, and the Mexicans are jubilant in consequence. Those trench pipers that were so severe upon tbe begira from Bull Run are now placed inanawk ward poBitioo. Tbey are probably ready Io admit, by this time, that "some folks osn do binge as well si others." now Gouaral Bink a Army was snvod Williamspoht, M.!., Way 20, ISGfc Diar Father and MotiIer: You bve P'obtibly heard by '.his timo of tho (hr e days fighting from Strasburg and Front Royal toMtrtinsburg. Our oompany and in the mountains, twelve milos from Stras burg, last Fuday. and when o got with-in two miles of our destination we heard annonading. The Major ordered the baggage to stop, and rur two companies dashed on, and found seven comp tnics of our infantry and two pie cs of artillery eneair- ed w th sevcrnl thousand of the cremy. Just as we arrived on tbe field, Col. Parem, who had command of our fences, rodo up to m? nnd ordered me to take one man and tho .wo fastest horses in our company and ride f r dear Ii 'e to Gen. Ranks' headquarters to Strasburg for reinforo mcnts. The direct roml to Strasburg was occupi -d by the enemy, so I was obliged, to ride round by another road seventeen miles. I roi'e the seventeen miles in CftyCvo minutes. Gi-n. Banks didn't seem to think it very serious, but ordered one regiment of infantry and two pieces of artillery off. I asked Gen. Banks for a fresh horse to rejoin my company, and he gave me tho best horse that I ever rode, and I started b ck. I came out on th Front Royal turnpike, auout two miles tins sue of wnero X left our men. Saw tvo men standing ia the road, and their horses standing by the fence I supposed they we. e our pickets. Thty Qiun t nan me, so i asicea mem H the were pickets? They said no. Say "Who are you?" "We are part of Ge i eral Jackson's staff." I supposed that they were only joking. I laughed, and asked them where Jackson was. They said he was in the advance. I left them and rode towards Front Royal, till I overtook a sol dier, and I asked bim what regiment he belonged to. He said he belonged to the Eighth Louisinnia. I asked bow large a lorce they hid, and the reply was, "twenty thousand." I turned back and drew my revolver, expecting cither a desperate fi-'ht or a Southern jail, but the officers in the road didn" stop me, and I was lucky en ough not to meet any of thci pickets. But if it was not a narrow escapo, then I don't know what is. When I got out of the enemy's lines, I rodo as fast as the horse conld car y me to Gen, Banks and reported what I b d seen and heard. He fftid I bnd saved the army. In less than an hour the whole army was in motion towards Winchester. After I left Front Royal to take the first dispatch to Strasburg, our two companies of cavalry, who were covering the retreat of thd infantry and b iggage, were attacked on three aides by about three thousand of the ene my's cavalry. Our boys fought like devils, till nearly half of them wire killed or wounded, and then retreated to Winches ler. Wo had a battle at Winchester, got licked, and retreated. Our company and company E were ordered to cover a Parrot gun battery, and bring up tbe rear. We rode all the way from Winchester to Mar tinsburg with cannon shot and shell flying around us faster than it dm at bull Kun, We crossed the Potomao last night. It wri so dark we couldn't find the ford and had to swim cur horses across. We had got our batteries in position on this side, aad tbe rear ot the army is crossing. From your son, CHARLEY II. GREENLEAF, Company D. 6th N. Y. Cavalry 03General McClellan'a valuable adjunct to his corps d' armee, the Lowe reconnoiter ing balloon, is getting to be quite an institu ti.n. During a tljht lately, between tbe rebels and a forco ol Union troops, in which the lat ter were engaged in dislodging some batteries that had been erected, .he balloon did effective service in diiectiog tbe movements of cur artillery. A t ele graph wiro attached to an instrument on board, conveyed intelligence to our men what to do, and what not to do, and corrected any mistakes made by the trans-. mission of such messages, as "Too short," ' just a little over," "fire lower," " the last shot took them," io. Ihe enemy oould not be seen by tbe men at tbe batteries, and our batteries in turn were bid from the view of the enemy, tbe majority tf whose shots foil wide of the mark. The Sombre Aspects of the War. The discharged soldiers from the hospital crippled beyond tbe power of fuuher duty, aro beginning to contrast with a shade o1 gloom tho gaiety of the promeaados, Tho spectacle is a sad one, and the more so bocaus8 Irotn the eye of the presont generaiioo it w l' never disappear. Wounded men some armless, some with legs shot away are scr in the s nets singly and In little groups living monuments ot traitor malignity and fratricidal ambition. Of the 7000 men in the hospitals in this city, at less 1000, we are informed, are incapacitated from further service, and will pass mutilated to their graves We see the poor fellows everywhere, limp ing uncmplainingly along, content tbat they have fought io a good cause, and grateful for any courtesy shown to tbem. We hive seen puppies in Lroadclolh who oontumaliously jostled against them. We have ssen noble hearted ladies in costly silks not too proud to yield to them tbe right of way, snd to salute them as thoy hobbloJ past. We saw such a lady yest.rJay quietly pisi to tbs conductor the fare for four erippled soldier who entered the vehicle as she alighted, and who passed on their way none .be wiser uns til the conductor enlighteoel th-ia on the subject. If anybody is enti led to regard and kind treatment it is the wounded soldier. Foi fifty ytars to come tbe maimed and tho crippled will temper tbs splendors of the prom enade. Fbil.Gaietto; 1'ats or a Tbaitob A correspondent 0 the Cincinnati Qjzitte, with Gen. Mitchell's Division of the army at HuntsvilU, Ala. relates the following: Walking through one of tbe most pleas i,Dt 0f lluntsville's beautiful streets to day the bare and blackened walls of a once splendid bouse presented themselves to my view, Tbe geatleman at my side remaiked there is a sad history connected with thou ruini. T.ie man who owned the property was, a few weeks since, second in influence to no on In the South, with a lovely family, a thorou'h education, and groat wealth. It seemed tbat nothing was lacking to complete his earthly happiness. In one short month he was hurled from his proud position of in fluence in Davis's Cabinet; his two young sons were lying dangerously wounded in the Corinth liofpita a; his city and oountry mansions laid wiste by an incendiary torch, an exile from his home, houseless; wifeless. Pepe Walker is turned adroit upon tbe cold charities of a pet pie whom he bas been instrumental in docelviag into a cruel rebellion. How cmblamatio of Gen. Walker's fortunos are these desolate walM A Joke on the Cavalry. A correspondent writing from Qen Fre mont's headquarters when thoy were at Franklin, tells a good story of a soranading attempt by the Band of the Connecticut Cav airy. Thoy were dirocted to a certain tent as that of Gen. Fromont. Their b)st tunes were discoursed uitil Oin. Schenck stepped out, and peiceividg their mistake, mads a spocch as if he was Frew nt. They discovered their mistake, and, being sure that another tent was the one they were in search of, opened their brazen throatB again. Hut what was their dismay, whon abou1 half through the first verse ot "John Brown's soul is marchiug on," &o., a furious Dutch man cams rushing at them and with gesticu lations which frightened the song out of tbe mouth of the serensdors. said: "What for you makes dish Oot-tam noish." "Go t h 11 mit your hpwlingsh." "Quart, charge on these noishes Got tarn." Our amiable Major stood dumbfounded at this unwarran t- ed attack, and believing a masterly retreat more glorious than a bloody advance, left the gesticulating Dutch aid-de-catnp in po session of the field. Leader ConisTn, Juno 6. A general order from Gen. Halleck siys: The Stato of Missouri except the counties of Mississippi, New Mad rid and Pemiscot, will hereafter constitute the m unary district or Missouri, to be commanded by Brig. Oon. Schofield; the force in southwest Missouri howrver.will be subject to the orders of Major ion. Curtis, com. mander and Militar, Governor of Arkansas The county of Mississippi will belong to the District of Cairo, under Gen. Strong, and the counties of New Madrid and PtmiBcot, Dis trict ofColumbua, under Ganoral Q'liinby. SOUTH' CAROLINA. " A letter received lecently in New York from a lawyer in Charleston gives a very gloomy statement of the condition of affairs in that city. He says that there were , Urge number of rospectable wealthy and influential persons who were, like himsel. thoroughly opposed to the whole secession movemont, but thoy were overborne and si -.S.l. , toocea oyiuemass. no man flare avow such a santimont there, no matter what his standing or position, lie had himself already paid $2 500, which had been exacted as a contribution towards the expenses ol the movement, and there was every prospec that these exactions would grow heavier and moro frequent. Tbe condition of affairs, he said was perfectly aw hi such as he had never expected to sea io this country. The mob had complete control, and tho conserva tives were paralyzed . Abolition ofPoIygamy, Tbe Senate passed the House bill with a alight amendment, abolishing polygamy in all the territories of Ihe United States, an making tbe penalty for the vio'ation of th laws five hundred dollars and imprisonment not less than five years. It also provides that no church in any territory shall own more thau fifty thousand dollars worth o property. No IIUNOABIAKS AhOMO TBS EfDILS When Gen Fremont was at tbe West, bis moat secret dispatches to the Prosident were sont in Magyar, which was as gooj as cipher, since no traitor knows tbe tongue. What a compliment to the native tongue o' Kossuth "No traitor knows tbe tongue!' tt is said that there is no record of sny Uun garian being in the rebel service, though .here are many in our army. Jaokson's Raid Down tho Val ey of v lrgnia. The New York Tribune bas lbs follow ing interesting dirpatches, concerning tbe late raid ot Jackson: Gen. Satxon has arrived here, having bee:i r.lieved of bis command at Harper's Ferry by Gen. Sigel. With 7,000 raw troops he kept tbe rebel army, which h d driven Gen. Banks out of the valley, at bay, and with bis artillery planted on Bolivar and (he Maryland lle ghts, repulsed their attacks several times, nnd saved tho railroad bridge and tbo depot of stores. It is believed lhat Jackson had nt less than 20, 00 J man there, while not mare than 600 v,ent to Martinsburg. They were commanded by Gens. Jack son, Ewell, Taylor, Trimble, and Winder and 6 nsistcd of Louisianin, Mississippi,) Georgia, and Virgi.iia troops, the best fio.n each state in the rebel army. Fifty pieces of artillery were counted passing through Charlestown. When J ackson saw that be was foiled in LI- attempt to cross into Maryland he fairly oried. scoording to the re port of a deserter. Glorious News from Mississippi. Waiiisoton, Juno 4. The following d'epMch was received this afternoon at tho War Department: Hallkck's HsADQUAiiTEai, June 4. To Hon. E. M. Stmto .Secretary of War.! r in . :,i .,i.w.,. . .! uenerai rope, nu u,wu men, in 30 miles south of Corinth. The nnemv U pressed hold. He already reports 10.000 Browne, "presuming therein tbat a partic-prisoners and deserters from the enemy, uinr veael, nervo, vein, or artery, is con and 15 000 stand of nrms cup ured ' icrred th reto from 'he liart;" which di-Thousnnds of Ihe t neiny sre throwing awny ! red vatcuW communication Browne shows' their arms. I to be anatomicallv Incc.rrpft. Nfarrrnhin A farmer 6ays when Beauregard learned gives aro her reason, which may perhaps that Col. Elliot ha 1 cut tbe ratlroid oi his rati fy those aifttomisis who are not talis-' line of retreat, be became franile, and told , tied with the above "Poller,' be say, his men to save hemselves the bcel wuy "or thumb,(wliose derivative polleo,- and tbev could. . from its Greek equivalent anticherr.which We captured n no locomotives and ' mean 'as good as a hand,' is to busy to number of cars: oue ot tbo former is alnrdy j be act aparl for any auch epeoial employ-repdired and is running to dny. Several meut.the next Augur to the thumb being mro will be in runnini; order in a few , but half orotecled on that side, boaldea days. The result is all that I could t o - siLily disire. (Signed) H. W. HALLECK. Maj Gen. Commandicg. CnrcAOo, June 4, A special Cairo dis. patch says. Immediately on the occupa. tion of Corinth by tbe forces from Gen Pope's division, sent out in pursuit of such rtbels as had fled westward, Gen. Granger in command of two regiments of oavaalry, soon came on the rear of the enemy, six mites southwest or Corinth and engaged in a fitfht. We lost 60 men, and was afterwards largely reinforced, when tbe rebels were surrounded. It is said that from hve to ten thousand rebels were enptured. A portion of there have reached Pi tsburg Landing, enroute to the Northern military prisons. tt tbd last account Gener I Pope was nine miles Southwest of Corinth, at which point his whole corps had reached.An Illi ots Dwarf.- Tom Thumb is oat-done. The race of infinitesimal bipeds is eclipsed. The em ill mortal, tbe mini mum pigmy of creation, has grown up here in Logan county: Torr. Thumb is nowhere. A young man by the name f John Green, twenty years of ags, and residing near this place, measures it is said, just two inches less in height than Barnum's "pel" and is sroullcr iu proporlioa every way. He comes to town occasionally snd rides upon the streets on a imall biped, his little legs descending scarcely below the animal' back He la really a curiosity. -Lincoln (111 ) Herald. Y.'heelimo, June 2 During the v'olent and terrific storm at one o'clock this morning the residence of Joshua P.llsbary was strut k by lightning, instantly killing Miss Mary K. Pillsbury and Miss Clara Goodwin. Th8 latter was to have been married to tbe former's brother to-oay. Miss Goodwin only arrived on Saturday from Sonth Berwick Maine. Tbe house was slightly injured. Picahih v Spkculatoks. A number ol years ago a bee black man of Washington raised sufficient money to purchase a black woman. By I er he has since raised a fain-i'y of six or sovon children. As by the law of the District, tho child follows the coud . lion of the mother, ol course these children are his slaves. He has, therefore, filed his claim and asked payment from the Govern-ment, valuing his "picaninies" at $300 each- -Boston Post. 03r Since Geo. Halleck took command at Pittsburg Landing, our amy has built, in credible as the story may sound, more than fi'ty miles of intrenchmonts, and lull two hundred miles of wagon roads! Four parallels, each more than twelve miles in length, three or four roads wide, corduroyed and bridged leading from the landing to each corpi d' armee all the works of our men"- many o' whom never before handled a spade or an axe in their lives. More Roleasod Frisouors. (Herald's Dispatch.) Nahvills, June 4. Wynkoop's Penn sylvania cavalry made a dash into Winchester to day, disp rting a largi force ol reb els, and capturing a fighting preacher, Captain Trimball. One thousand five hundred Union prison ers, enptured by the rebels at Shiloh, ar rived here to day, released on parole. The rebels had not enough to feed them, tbey had but one ration on Friday. Tbey had b.cn taken to Georgia. XyOne of tbe volunteers who respon ded :o Gov. Tod's last proclamation and wentnp to tolumbns, was seen walking on High street in front of the State Ho ne viewin6 H from top to foundtion and from si lo to end. After looking at it for some time be inquired of a gentleman if that wasrt the LapitolT "xesl" replied the1 man, "that is tbe Capitol." Well," says the volunteer. don't see why in thunde Gov. Tod should telegraph' that the Capitol is in danger; it looks all light enough to me. It was thought that said volun Mr ai s'ighily inebriated. It is positively known tht 'ie was not Press. from Zinesville. Zirebvilk- yThe Nashville Union of May 30 h learns tbat Col. Newman's Infantry regiment, which was raised in the oountiea cf Bedford, Marshall, and adjoining counties Tenn., left Beauregard's army at CorinUi in masses some days ago, and n t now on their way home. This regiment was composed of twelve months' men, who refused to be forced in (be service any org r, although gro-1 effjris were m Jo to ni rain them, they being the mrst valuable in tbe service. They are completely disguisted with tht rebellion. Tbe boys wron as a motto on their bats. "Home or He'l " Thousands niore are ami' ns to fo'low. . The Wedding-Ring Pingof. This is the fourth finger on tbe loft hand. Why this parttoub r digit shojld have received such a token of honor and trust beyond all its congeners, both tnPa. gan and Christian times, has bien various-Iv intemru'e I. "fh.smost eommnn nlanaiion ra." ai-corrlimr la Sir Thnm : having other work to do, is also intligble. I Hie approbrium attaching (of tbe middle finger, called medious, puts it entirely out oi me question; ana as the little bnger stands exposed, and is moreover too puny to enter Ihe li ts in such a contest, the1 spousal honors develoved naturally on pronobus, the wedding fingar " Ia The Bri ish Apollo, 1738, it is Urged that the I fourth finger was cbosen from its bein? not only less used than either of tho rest. but more capable of preserving a ring from bruises, having this one quality peculiar to itself, that it cannot be extended but in company with somo other finger whereas tbe rest may be stretcehd oat W their lull length and s'.raigh!neis Pnsonors Released Bo bels Sisoon tent. NAsnviu.t.June 4 Tbe train frosi Co lumbit brought here this morning 1 6001 Ftd.-rnl prisoners nf Gen. Prentiss' division, who were taken at Pittsburg Land ing They came from Micon, Turcnloosn and Montgomery, and were paroled in eon-s q uen co of the rebels being unable to feed them. A di? patch to Gen. Johnson froto Gen Negley, oi yesterday, says that Wynkoop'e cavalry made o dash into Winchester and scattered Storr's rebel cavalry in all directions, cur men ohasing them over the caun-try.Tuey roport ti'iiveml disaoii'ent among the rebel soldiers, who are anxious to gu Lome The j rivates say they are whipped out. Four hoodred raoia paroled prisoners will arrive here to-morrow. The. speech of Ex-Governor Brown is netting a powerful influence on hundred wbo have been led into secession. The Flood la Pennsylvania. Eastoh, Pa., June 6. Feaiful accounts' of damages bave been received front Munch Chunk and vicini' v. The dam there as wel as at two other places, were swept away, and mtnj houses were washed off" the Kailroitd bridge is also gone. C nal navigation is stopped for tho season. The Lehigh Valley rai road will not be in running order for revcrul weeks. The town of Womport is Washed away; there were bnt three houses left out of about three hundred. The !os of life has been quite large. The Lehigh Valley railroad ia badly torn up. The Belvadier and Delaware railroad can b . repaired in a few days. The Delaware, Laoawan and Western railroad will be running in about a week. A part of the basin of the Delaware canal here has been washed out. The damage in Glon-don is n ry great. The furnaces are all chilled. The lumbrmen are heavy loosen. Millions ot feet of sawed lumber and thousands of logs have been carried away. Tbe number of persons drowned is not yet as' certained. Eugenie's last New Petticoat. The Empress Eugene has long beri ambitious of having a petticoat which shall not be imitated by every woman iti Christendom and, according to the London Herald's Paiis correnpondent, she has njw uoceeded. Tbe wonderful garment is made of carabrio raulin, so. tbat the warberwoman cannct stiffen it to much. I a circuralerence is six yards at the widest (?) kit, and it is covered 6y nine flounces of still greater circumferenoe. The lowest of these fljunces is a mere frill; tbo second, a 1 tile larger a dcon-i-ideiably wider.completely covers the firsts Thu third does the same to the Second and so on till one gre.U fl)unoe falls completely over the other eight, each one of which, to arrive t the standard of ioipu rial ilnganoe, must bo hem stiched like a lady's pocket handkerchief, and the other one in addition be nearly covered with the embf jldety dche by the women of the Yos es. This invention af-o sets its aae against the sewing machine aa nearly every part of it mi si be handwork. It wa purposely so designed to prevent an immense nnmber of seamstresses being suddenly thrown out of work by th increased demand for Machine teiritf. whioh is not yei capable of iff o ivg tea at job oi embroidery. From Washington. WisBiscioH, Junt 6. A reliable toiofl. ofSoer, wbo was tea days in tbe bands ef the rebels at Winchester, where h talked freely with their i (Beers, sa tbat tUj Kvn to lock forward to tbe desthK'.ka of &t great armus as a thing sure to happtii sooner or later, and had made op theif minds to tale to the bush tnd waft a gd-erilla or partisan warfare, in which thby said they felt themselves at home. The officers struck onr informant as a fiae set of men, and were devoted body and srul to the enn3 of the rebellion; but he thought that most of ti soldiers s (tried not to bavr iheir heart ia thebinncss. M nisti-r Morris not'fies the 8(nt De-parlmei t tbat the Turk:sh Departmert has; isiued an order foi bidding the Confederate privateer admission to any porta of th O. toman Empire, in accordance with th proririons of tbe treaty cf Parts of Iff?, j . . . . - V